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Latest Intel, AMD chips will only run Windows 10 ... and Linux, BSD, OS X

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Re: @fandom

"...will drop support... There. FIFY."

No, i386 got dropped almost 4 years ago. The interrupts are handled differently from later processors and they decided it was a bit too faffy to support.

Mostly doesn't affect anything because most distros have only supported 586 and above for a long time.

32 bit x86 - for, internally, Linux calls the architecture x86 - well, a few distros have dropped support for it, but it hasn't gone away yet.

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